Many people lack a factual understanding of events in our region because the media report them inadequately. We blog here because our daughter Malki, murdered at the age of 15 in a restaurant massacre in Jerusalem, was a victim of jihadist hatred and barbarism. For jihadism and terrorism to end in Israel, New York, Madrid, London and everywhere else, people first need to understand the scale on which it is happening and why. This ongoing war is killing us.

Sunday, July 01, 2012

1-Jul-12: Among savages, this one is exceptionally barbaric

Ibrahim Hamed in handcuffs at the military court in Machane Ofer.
It's startling how murderous monsters often look like
ordinary human beings. The tragic and unforgivable mistake many make
is to believe they ought to be treated like members
of some political opposition group. [Image Source]

He's not exactly a household name, even here in
Israel. But Ibrahim Hamed is a major figure, a hero, a man of
accomplishment in the world of Islamist terrorists/murderers and their very
large number of supporters throughout the Arab world and beyond it.

The history of Israeli sentences of this sort
strongly suggests the man will go free at some early stage. But for now, the
news media here - and almost nowhere else - are reporting in a straightforward
way on the crimes he committed and the sentence imposed on him.

Hamed was captured afteran eight year manhuntby
Israeli forces in 2006 at a place within walking distance of where the sentence was
pronounced this morning. Held in prison since that time, he is described inhis Wikipedia entryas "a Hamas military commander in the
West Bank who ordered suicide bombing attacks during the Al-Aqsa Intifada". Let's briefly parse that statement. First observation: the word "suicide"
is entirely out of place in the description. The crime was murder. The killers,
a selection of Islamist losers and dead-enders, may or may not have intended to die in
the effort. But that is surely not the defining character of the terrorist
outrage. Describing the crime, and by implication the victims, as having a
character determined by what happened in the end to the perpetrator is wrong
and offensive to the innocent people who were their victims, and unduly respectful of the evil parties.

Second note: amilitary commander? Like a lieutenant general or a field marshal? What absurd nonsense. We're speaking of the
ring-leader of the grandiosely named Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the Hamas division that executes its terrorist intentions; a man who never wore a military uniform,
since terrorists conduct themselves behind a massive human shield of the
societies in which they live. And does Hamas constitute amilitaryforce? If so, what are their military objectives? If the
suggested answer is "they want to win territory and set up a sovereign
state", then show us how this fits with their highly public and
well-analyzed political manifesto, otherwise known as theHamas Covenant (where
it's conveniently translated into English). They are interested in neither territory nor sovereign states. Read the Covenant - it's all laid out clearly enough.

He was andhe isa terrorist. He seeks (present tense) to murder civilians by
any means accessible to him or the people taking orders from him. Military
commanders everywhere would be fully justified in taking the greatest personal
offence at any comparison to the rule-constrained careers they undertook.

The charge sheet against Hamad, describes how
he planned, organized, assisted and executed the killing of 46
people and the wounding of more than 400 more. The cowardly bloodbaths he
initiated include these:

The
December 1, 2001 staged, multiple bombings in central Jerusalem's Zion Square. Eighteen people were killed in the Saturday night crowd. A further
188 were injured. The gross savagery of the perpetrators was showcased by
the way the first two bombs, detonated on the bodies of the two
walking/talking pathetically-human explosives, were followed several
minutes later - in accordance with the terrorists' plan - by the explosion of a nearby car bomb.
That car bomb was timed to go off just as ambulances and first-responders
arrived on the scene.When
you are in the presence of barbarians, you must be very careful to
distinguish their actions from those of a military.

The
bombing of theFrank
Sinatra Cafeteriaon
the campus of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem on July 31, 2002. Nine
students, most of them Americans, were murdered in that act of
savagery. About 100 others were injured. The nail-studded bomb
was hidden in a bag that was planted under a cafeteria table and then detonated
by remote control, allowing the killers to escape safely.The
news media reportedthat
day on street celebrations in Gaza.

How long before we see this creature's face on
the posters held by "human rights activists"?

3 comments:

B'HI am not one to advocate killing another human being, but by his actions this man has lost the right to be called a human being. He is a monster and a rodef. The kindest thing for us and for him is a swift death. Horrifying that they get pardoned time after time.

We're not aware of even one of the murderers who has been pardoned, at least not by the Israeli side. What has happened to an extent that we find shocking is that, while the convictions stand, the sentences are dramatically lightened. That's what happened in the Shalit transaction last October. We know this to be true from having discussed it with insiders and to from having personally seen (and have) the "lightening of sentence" document that was issued to the woman Tamimi when she was freed from prison instead of serving 16 life terms. Why the Israeli media - and in their wake, the world media - persisted then and still persist in saying these murderers were pardoned is beyond us.

Accuracy on this point will potentially become a serious issue if and when these miscreants are re-arrested and sent to prison again.

B'HTo be honest these sorts of murderers,mass murderers are no better than the Nazis of WWII. They are killers of innocent people and they have no conscious. I was sickened to read that the murderer of Fogel family believes he 'did not wrong'. As if the life of a Jew were nothing. That is what we are up against and misguided people defend and support them.

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